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In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and his rapturous band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to the their rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif. Together, they performed ...
Sceptics! Neophytes! Zappa obsessives! Check out MOJO’s bespoke Frank Zappa mixtape – ditching the dirty gags (er, mostly) for hot grooves, hotter guitars and exquisite orchestrations... “Four ...
In her new memoir, 'Earth to Moon', the actress and author details her stormy relationship with her late parents, from beginning to end When rock legend Frank Zappa died in 1993 after a years-long ...
Moon Unit Zappa remembers the moment she became the voice of a generation. It was a school night in 1982 when musician Frank Zappa jostled his 13-year-old daughter awake. Frank needed her in the ...
Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts ...
The new 50th anniversary super deluxe edition of Frank Zappa’s now legendary and career ... especially as heard on Zappa’s 1972 album Waka/Jawaka. So hearing him again and stretching out is a real ...
After that many recent compelling releases, from Thandi Ntuli to Frank Zappa (newly published archival material from the legendary Waka Jawaka and Grand Wazoo sessions). Happy listening and happy new ...
Produced and compiled by Frank’s son Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers, Zappa Vaultmeister, the expanded set also includes the 2012 remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig, along with outtakes ...
In 1973, Frank Zappa and The Mothers were once again on the move. Coming off a year laden with a pair of well-lauded high watermarks — July 1972's jazz-fusiony solo masterstroke Waka/Jawaka and ...
Despite his relatively short life, Frank Zappa had quite the run as a musician. In his lifetime, he shared 62 albums. His estate has since shared 64 albums posthumously, making a grand total of ...
Newly discovered tapes reveal the missing link. RELEASED STATESIDE in October 1969, Hot Rats was Frank Zappa’s breakout solo album, an assertion both of his compositional powers, and – vital in those ...